Sounds like she was hurt from rough handling by too many roosters. That can break an egg in her so I'd get her somewhere safe where she will be happy or lock up the cockerels/roosters, and let her be out. Look her over and see if in their hormone crazed state if they beat her up too. Poor pullet. I'd put her in a quiet place tonight, (I bring mine in in a large box with an oven rack for a cover, with food and water, and treats. with b vitamins and poultry vitamins in water for stress). Did she get to eat today? Was her crop full? Often cockerels will jump pullets when they try to eat and drink.
From: Sara Mandal-Joy <smjlist@wavewls.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:20 PM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] panicked and/or hurt pullet
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
From: Sara Mandal-Joy <smjlist@wavewls.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:20 PM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] panicked and/or hurt pullet
I've got a bantam light brahma pullet, about 9 months old now. She's
been laying for last few months. She has two bantam roos to deal with,
which is way too many - she's wearing an apron, but hasn't seemed hurt
or bothered by their attentions. But my full size light brahma roo has
been coming after her last couple days. I shoo him off, which he isn't
happy about, but I think I need to just keep her in a protected/separate
space for a time at least. In two weeks we move to our new home, with a
big coop with a flexibility in pen spaces, and with fifty new point of
laying hens (the breeder has been growing them out for me since
January). So there will be plenty of hens to go around for the three
roos (one full size and two bantam). But I'm concerned that something
bad happened to her today. I don't know if the big rooster "got her"
and she was hurt. She doesn't seem to be bleeding back there. But when
I went to tuck the chickens in tonight I found her hiding back in the
coop for the bantams, emitting the most distressing sounds. Repeated
moans or cries. Kind of like the sounds a hen makes when she has laid
an egg, only very softly, with beak closed, and repeatedly. She sounded
more panicked than hurt. When I held her up against me, inside my
jacket, she gradually calmed down. The minute I brought her out it
would start again. I did get her to eat a bit by holding some food in
my padded glove while she was mostly under the cover of my jacket. I
was going to bring her inside in a small cage by herself tonight as when
the little roos gathered round, dancing around her, she got freaked.
But once they were tucked in and quiet she wanted down and went in to
their coop as well. I'm going to try to get out there fairly early,
before they are very awake or active, and put her in the rabbit hutch
for tomorrow, see how she is doing.
Has anyone seen a young chicken act this way? Wondering what I could do
to help her... Hard to know without knowing what is wrong.
Sara, SE Kansas
been laying for last few months. She has two bantam roos to deal with,
which is way too many - she's wearing an apron, but hasn't seemed hurt
or bothered by their attentions. But my full size light brahma roo has
been coming after her last couple days. I shoo him off, which he isn't
happy about, but I think I need to just keep her in a protected/separate
space for a time at least. In two weeks we move to our new home, with a
big coop with a flexibility in pen spaces, and with fifty new point of
laying hens (the breeder has been growing them out for me since
January). So there will be plenty of hens to go around for the three
roos (one full size and two bantam). But I'm concerned that something
bad happened to her today. I don't know if the big rooster "got her"
and she was hurt. She doesn't seem to be bleeding back there. But when
I went to tuck the chickens in tonight I found her hiding back in the
coop for the bantams, emitting the most distressing sounds. Repeated
moans or cries. Kind of like the sounds a hen makes when she has laid
an egg, only very softly, with beak closed, and repeatedly. She sounded
more panicked than hurt. When I held her up against me, inside my
jacket, she gradually calmed down. The minute I brought her out it
would start again. I did get her to eat a bit by holding some food in
my padded glove while she was mostly under the cover of my jacket. I
was going to bring her inside in a small cage by herself tonight as when
the little roos gathered round, dancing around her, she got freaked.
But once they were tucked in and quiet she wanted down and went in to
their coop as well. I'm going to try to get out there fairly early,
before they are very awake or active, and put her in the rabbit hutch
for tomorrow, see how she is doing.
Has anyone seen a young chicken act this way? Wondering what I could do
to help her... Hard to know without knowing what is wrong.
Sara, SE Kansas
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